Do You Remove Battery From Your Dive Computer?

[drbill]

I can understand someone who dives infrequently removing their battery. However, I may dive on any given day so I'm more than willing to allow the battery drain betwen dives to ensure my computer is ready to go if I decide to dive on the spur of the moment.

 

[Bratface]

Like dr bill, I also have the opportunity to dive every week so I don't remove my batteries. I dive with a Perdix and a Chromis as backup. Shearwater computers use AA batteries. Since alkaline batteries can leak and destroy your computer, Shearwater recommends on their website to remove the battery if you will not be using it for two months or more. You can use a variety of AA batteries in these computers so I don't know if you would need to remove lithium, but I would if I were not going to dive for a while but the Scubapro, no I wouldn't remove the battery.

 

[LFMarm]

Shearwater recommends removing batteries when low in charge or not used for more than 4 weeks Best practices for dive computer batteries

 

[scubadada]

Shearwater recommends removing batteries when low in charge or not used for more than 4 weeks Best practices for dive computer batteries

Ha, thread is just eight years old, never too late

 

[LFMarm]

I have been researching this topic and read all old posts, before I got the recommendation from Dive-Tronix

 

[Stoo]

It’s rare that I go more than 4 weeks but I doubt I’d bother until I hit 8 weeks or so. It’s best practice to do this with most electronics. I always use lithium batteries in my Shearwaters which reduces the risk of them melting down.